BOB Books

If you have not discovered BOB books yet I highly recommend them!  We have 3 full sets now.  Pictured above is the first set.  You can purchase them through book fairs and on Amazon.These contain easy CVC words and some beginning sight words in.  L (my kindergartener now) has taken to these very well.  Once blending letter sounds together clicked with him he took off.  There are also free resources and printables to go with BOB books as well.  What I love most about the BOB books is the simple Dick and Jane structure of the stories.  I know when I was a kid I learned most of our reading skills from memorizing the words.  I memorized the words from practicing them over and over until I recognized the sounds that went together.  I don't remember much about learning phonics, but I remember reading Dick and Jane books and other stories like them.  I am not saying that memorizing words is the best way to read.  But it is an excellent tool, especially for those sight words that do not follow phonics rules. 


Standards

Kansas Early Learning Standards
(standards for children 3-4 years old)

CL.L.p3.2:

Uses pictures and illustrations to tell and retell parts of a story.

 

CL.L.p3.3:

Asks and answers questions about unknown words/pictures in a book.

 

CL.L.p3.4 :

Interacts with a variety of common types of texts (e.g.,storybooks, poems, songs).

 

CL.L.p3.5:

Understands that books have both illustrations and print.

 

CL.IT.p3.3:

Exhibits curiosity and interest in learning new vocabulary.

 

CL.IT.p3.4:

Identifies the front andback cover of a book.

 

Common Core Standards
(the following standards are at a Kindergarten level...not an early learning level)

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.R.F.K.1   
Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.R.F.K.1a 
 Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.R.F.K.1b   
Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.R.F.K.1c
 Understand that words are separated by spaces in print

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.R.F.K.3a   
Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. 

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.R.F.K.3c  
Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).